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Microsoft never was able to top WinForms

Now you have flutter/swiftui/compose that puts to shame both WPF/.net MAUI

The fact that they doubled down with XML/XAML says it all, they lost the UI just like they lost the phone, server and embedded markets

Here is your answer: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coinbase

Why does the press focus their FUD against Binance? that's the proper question one should ask, is that because the poison FTX failed?

That's indeed one great question

Specially after this:

Butterfly Effect

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2022/02/geoengineering-reining-...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/18/us-and-s...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-blocks-u-n-re...

https://www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/regions/

> Farmers who buy seed protected by some types of patent must sign an agreement not to sell or save seed from these crops – so they are obliged to buy fresh seeds every year.

The dark side of the GMO propaganda, then you have the royalties ;)

https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/gm-plants/wh...

grey area

"sick farmer sued by Ford because he built a home system to control his machines from his bed"

great new civilization ahead!

we'll keep arguing until Asia gets better infrastructure than us

oh wait...

we'll keep arguing until Asia gets their interplanetary infrastructure before us

oh wait..

the goal is not to make internet a burden to the people

the goal is to make sure we are moving forward

but this is something obscure to certain people over here, hence our situation

you don't go to netflix to watch a movie at their place

netflix delivers data to you

are you saying the delivery man should only buy his car (AWS) and never help maintain the road (infrastructure)?

why should the customer who order food has to pay for the road the delivery person will use? the customer already paid for the service!

why, to you, this analogy only works when it doesn't benefit the customer?

billions $ are circulating in the market, and our core infrastructures always has to suffer

look at what happened in Ohio

but the city can ask you to pay a tax to support its infrastructure

the people who own the infrastructure can ask what ever they want

including to pay to help support the infrastructure your business is using for free

I thought Mexico rejected it due to water scarcity? [1]

Nobody cares about the environment anymore? :thinking_face:

Seems like there was some bribery under the hood, that reminds of how the US has helped microsoft cover its 'briberies' [2], no wonder [3]

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

[2] - https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/25/22995144/microsoft-foreig...

[2+] - https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/25/microsoft_accused_of_...

[2++] - https://www.lioness.co/post/microsoft-is-using-illegal-bribe...

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-space-exploration-spacex-...

Oh i know about this document, it has some interesting arguments and sources, but it seems quite opinionated, and the HIV point makes me question a lot of it

Considering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discredited_HIV/AIDS_origins_t...

Do you mind sharing a source to back this surprising claim?

You also mention "the labs", this one included?

I feel like the AAA industry will want to make their own Extraction Shooter

The funny thing is they all never mention one of the key element that makes Tarkov so fun! the item management! the flee market, it's economy, and the hardcore nature of the gameplay!

These are the reason i believe Tarkov is successful, something Path of Exile also managed to capture

There is a reason to come back after resets, building and playing in a fresh economy, trading, looting and gambling with your run

The shooting is the least fun, and the least important

I doubt they throw away dangerous matter in the garbage bin ;)

Why would they do it and risk a lab leak inside their own country, that doesn't make any sense

I don't think the FBI is in a position to tell us what happened in China

And the US has shown its willingness to twist the truth to its own advantage, perhaps it is yet another sabotage?

Just like with the fake proof for the Irak invasion, Lebanon bombing, Nordstream2, killing of Iranian nuclear scientists

Look, they also suggested sabotaging TSMC! [1]

[1] - https://www.techspot.com/news/96291-taiwan-destroying-tsmc-e...

That is why we are stuck on this dying planet burning coal to survive during the winter

It's impressive that despite all evidence that the statement he made is right, you still find people who believe the US is always innocent

You already forgot about Snowden and the NSA?

Few examples:

spy on foreign industries: https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/france/290615/revealed-m...

spy on transactions: https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/how-the-nsa-spies...

spy on foreign secrets: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/business/us-snooping-on-c...

covert agents in civil companies: https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

bis: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-space-exploration-spacex-...

> Yeah, it's a bad and unnecessarily inflammatory (and arguably disrespectful) example. But the rest of the points GP makes are spot on.

I agree, i apologies for the mistake, i can no longer edit the post unfortunately

0 responsibility developers

you have Japan infrastructure, and you have Turkey infrastructure

6.1 quake in Japan = nothing destroyed

6.1 quake in Turkey = everything collapses

The engineers in Turkey probably didn't value performance and efficiency

It's the same for developers, you choose your camp wisely, otherwise people will complain at you if they can no longer bear your choice

You act like innocent, but your code choice translate to a cost (higher server bill for your company, higher energy bill for your customers/users, time wasted for everyone, depleting rare materials at a faster rate, growing tech junk)

Selfishness is high in the software industry

We are lucky it's not the same for the HW industry, but it's getting hard for them to hide your incompetence, as more things now run on a battery, and the battery tech is kinda struggling

Good thing is they get to sell more HW since the CPU is "becoming slower" lol

So we now got smartwatches that one need to recharge every damn day

Kinda nice to have, D can do it aswell:

    import std;

    void main()
    {
        int[] a = [1, 2, 3];
        string[] b = ["a", "b", "c"];

        foreach (e1, e2; zip(a, b))
        {
            writeln(e1, ":", e2);
        }
    }

    1:a
    2:b
    3:c

> It would be a flop for a traditional console, but the Steam Deck isn't a console, it's a PC

I don't think people use it as a PC, but more like as a portable media center, the Switch and the PSP do that as well (even the PSP had a web browser!)

So it's wrong to picture the Deck as the exception, even thought it can and is a supported use case

They sell it and market its gaming capabilities

https://store.steampowered.com/steamdeck

You see games, not office apps, emails or social media apps, you don't have front facing camera so you can't use it for your meetings

Sony will have to prepare for the cloud gaming revolution once network infrastructure will match the grid network infrastructure

A handheld will be the catalyzer for cloud gaming market, just like what smartphones did to landline telephones

I can see a PS6 with a handheld as companion, it perfectly make sense, if they don't then that'd be a missed opportunity

It definitely is better than Xbox X/S, Microsoft missed a huge opportunity there, they have to manufacture 2 different SKU (sony will soon have just one with their modular design)

I can't be the only one to sense this signal?

If they don't do a handheld then that could only mean they got pressured to not do it, by whom? shareholders? insiders? 3rd-party?

The PSVita story is unfortunate, but lot of solid reasons why it didn't do as good as they'd have hoped, it sold ~ same as the WiiU and yet Nintendo doubled down and were successful with the Switch, it could have been PSVita2 or PSP2 and Sony would have found similar success, even thought Switch took some time before going mainstream, that's another evidence that the market is demanding it, you can see it with the boom of the handheld retro consoles that all are running android/linux

Successful games like CoD Mobile and Genshin Impact, as well as the countless of games getting ported to the Switch and Smartphones is a better evidence than my comment, smartphone users are demanding premium games, and that played a big role in the Switch success

Both Nintendo/Sony sold ~3x more than Microsoft last month

Steam Deck numbers are nothing compared to what these 3 are selling, if i remember correctly, it was 1 million reservations total for a whole year, that sounds like a flop to my book when you compare with the 3 existing players

I think next gen we'll see Sony getting back into the handheld market, Nintendo coming up with a second version, and Microsoft coming up with a cloud stick

Microsoft doubling down on cloud gaming might kill their Xbox brand, it's too early for that, they'll miss the handheld market just like they missed the smartphone era

https://www.vgchartz.com/

someone in this website has the ability to set scores rather than just downvote/vote, i see you buddy

This article getting flagged is the confirmation that some points are valid

> Aiven, an open source cloud data platform company, recently analyzed who's doing what with GitHub open source code projects. They found that the top open source contributors were all companies – Amazon Web Services, Intel, Red Hat, Google, and Microsoft.

> Microsoft!!? Yes, Microsoft. I know, I know, you've been raised up to spit at the very name, and many of you still continue to think Microsoft is the Evil Empire.

> Folks, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, neither of whom had any love for open source or Linux, haven't been calling the shots at Microsoft for almost a decade. This is not your dad's Microsoft. In short, get over it.

What a poorly written article with poor subjective arguments

1. not all open source happens on github

2. not all open source happens on a single giant repo

so your data is not representative of open source

millions of open source project with 1-2 contributors vs 10k employees working on an open source piece of their proprietary stack

this is worrying level of tech journalism, revisionist and manipulative

That's a smartphone UX [1], why he need to have large vertical screen? I don't understand

[1] - https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj...

mozilla kept complaining about google, yet they accept their juicy money by selling their users

in 2 decades, they could have built their own search, many tried and many found success!

mozilla kept complaining about the playstore, yet they happily put their app there

in 2 decades, they could have built their own store, many did!

Sometimes i wonder what Mozilla's real intent is, where did the money go?

More like US's army defense system, the US is building a giant fleet of satellites with spying capabilities

I find it interesting that the press keep saying "Musk's Starlink" in their headlines, they really want to make sure you don't question the association

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-space-exploration-spacex-...

We got a taste of it in Ukraine

Mercedes doesn't "hope", the journalist is projecting, if Mercedes built it, it's to have an advantage, not to "hope" to have an advantage, de facto

removing "here is how Mercedes hopes" from the article was a poor choice

Flashback, in case people don't have the reference: https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

How is that different from the CIA being able to sniff and access their servers thanks to the US patriot act? will they 'walk' from the US too? [1]

Oh, my bad, i almost forgot! it's the tech that's being tested to power the digital online passport, we'll get to see it first with twitter [2], then meta, then it'll expand everywhere else

Ahh, the joy of the bitcoin, who said china was evil with their social credit system? <:P (i did my best to picture a clown face)

The existence of the patriot act makes everything obvious

[1] - https://www.aquaray.com/en/blog/posts/cloud-act-patriot-act-...

[2] - https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1596615573303357440